This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the technical achievements in the research area of Image Retrieval , especially Content-Based Image Retrieval, an area so active and prosperous in the past few years. The survey includes 100+ papers covering the research aspects of image feature representation and extraction, multi-dimensional indexing, and system design, three of the fundamental ba...

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the technical achievements in the research area of Image Retrieval , especially Content-Based Image Retrieval, an area so active and prosperous in the past few years. The survey includes 100+ papers covering the research aspects of image feature representation and extraction, multi-dimensional indexing, and system design, three of the fundamental ba...

We present the main freight transportation planning and management issues, brie y review the associated literature, describe a number of major developments, and identify trends and challenges. In order to keep the length of the paper within reasonable limits, we focus on long-haul, intercity, freight transportation. Optimization-based operations research methodologies are privileged. The paper ...

There are numerous guides on Web design but for the most part, these are based on designers' intuition and common sense Ð with little theoretical or experimental validation. A major problem is that there is a general lack of cognitive guidelines for Web design. Of the few available theoretical guidelines for designing hypermedia documents, very little experimental research is available that tes...

Vorläufiges Abstract:
 Zunächst werde ich die zentralen Begriffe beziehungsweise Konzepte klären, das Thema des Textes ausmachen: Ich stelle in aller Kürze wichtigsten Charakteristika von DBR vor (Abschnitt 2.1) und beleuchte knapp Herkunft Bedeutung Begriffs Standard der Wissenschaft 2.2). Daran anschließend werden typische wissenschaftliche Standards erörtert, ihre Wurzeln im Ideal natur...